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    <center>Scilab Variable</center>
    <div align="right">Last update : January 2002</div>
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      <b>LANGUAGE</b> -  Variable defining the language</p>
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    The global variable <tt>
        <b>LANGUAGE</b>
      </tt> is a string.  It defines
    the language to use for the on-line help and various menus.  At
    the present time, the values of <tt>
        <b>LANGUAGE</b>
      </tt> can be
    <tt>
        <b>"eng"</b>
      </tt> for English, which is the default, or
    <tt>
        <b>"fr"</b>
      </tt> for French.</p>
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    This variable is defined in the startup file
    <tt>
        <b>scilab.star</b>
      </tt>. It can be changed there.</p>
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    When launching Scilab, you can also give the value of language
    as an argument: <tt>
        <b>scilab -l &lt;language&gt;</b>
      </tt> for Unix and
    <tt>
        <b>runscilab.exe -l &lt;language&gt;</b>
      </tt> for Windows.</p>
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